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  1. Ignorance: A Case for Scepticism.Peter K. Unger - 1975 - Oxford [Eng.]: Oxford University Press.
    In these challenging pages, Unger argues for the extreme skeptical view that, not only can nothing ever be known, but no one can ever have any reason at all for anything. A consequence of this is that we cannot ever have any emotions about anything: no one can ever be happy or sad about anything. Finally, in this reduction to absurdity of virtually all our supposed thought, he argues that no one can ever believe, or even say, that anything is (...)
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  2. Living high and letting die: our illusion of innocence.Peter K. Unger - 1996 - New York: Oxford University Press.
    By contributing a few hundred dollars to a charity like UNICEF, a prosperous person can ensure that fewer poor children die, and that more will live reasonably long, worthwhile lives. Even when knowing this, however, most people send nothing, and almost all of the rest send little. What is the moral status of this behavior? To such common cases of letting die, our untutored response is that, while it is not very good, neither is the conduct wrong. What is the (...)
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  3. The Problem of the Many.Peter Unger - 1980 - Midwest Studies in Philosophy 5 (1):411-468.
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  4. (1 other version)Ignorance : a case for scepticism.Peter Unger - 1975 - Revue Philosophique de la France Et de l'Etranger 166 (3):371-372.
     
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  5. Identity, Consciousness, and Value.Peter K. Unger - 1990 - New York: Oxford University Press.
    The topic of personal identity has prompted some of the liveliest and most interesting debates in recent philosophy. In a fascinating new contribution to the discussion, Peter Unger presents a psychologically aimed, but physically based, account of our identity over time. While supporting the account, he explains why many influential contemporary philosophers have underrated the importance of physical continuity to our survival, casting a new light on the work of Lewis, Nagel, Nozick, Parfit, Perry, Shoemaker, and others. Deriving from his (...)
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  6. (1 other version)There are no ordinary things.Peter Unger - 1979 - Synthese 41 (2):117 - 154.
  7. An analysis of factual knowledge.Peter Unger - 1968 - Journal of Philosophy 65 (6):157-170.
  8. All the power in the world.Peter K. Unger - 2006 - New York: Oxford University Press.
    This bold and original work of philosophy presents an exciting new picture of concrete reality. Peter Unger provocatively breaks with what he terms the conservatism of present-day philosophy, and returns to central themes from Descartes, Locke, Berkeley, Hume and Russell. Wiping the slate clean, Unger works, from the ground up, to formulate a new metaphysic capable of accommodating our distinctly human perspective. He proposes a world with inherently powerful particulars of two basic sorts: one mental but not physical, the other (...)
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  9. Philosophical relativity.Peter K. Unger - 1984 - New York: Oxford University Press.
    In this short but meaty book, Peter Unger questions the objective answers that have been given to central problems in philosophy. As Unger hypothesizes, many of these problems are unanswerable, including the problems of knowledge and scepticism, the problems of free will, and problems of causation and explanation. In each case, he argues, we arrive at one answer only relative to an assumption about the meaning of key terms, terms like "know" and like "cause," even while we arrive at an (...)
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  10. I do not exist.Peter K. Unger - 1979 - In Graham Macdonald (ed.), Perception and Identity. London: Cornell University Press.
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  11. (1 other version)A defense of skepticism.Peter Unger - 1971 - Philosophical Review 80 (2):198-219.
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    Empty Ideas: A Critique of Analytic Philosophy.Peter K. Unger - 2014 - New York, NY: Oup Usa.
    During the middle of the twentieth century, philosophers generally agreed that, by contrast with science, philosophy should offer no substantial thoughts about the general nature of concrete reality. Instead, philosophers offered conceptual truths. It is widely assumed that, since 1970, things have changed greatly.
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  13. (2 other versions)Living high and letting die. Our illusion of innocence.Peter Unger - 1996 - Revue Philosophique de la France Et de l'Etranger 189 (1):129-130.
     
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    (3 other versions)Living High and Letting Die.Peter Unger - 1999 - Philosophical and Phenomenological Research 59 (1):195-201.
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  15. Why there are no people.Peter Unger - 1979 - Midwest Studies in Philosophy 4 (1):177-222.
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  16. (1 other version)Philosophical Relativity.Peter Unger - 1985 - Mind 94 (373):143-144.
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    Reply to ReviewersIdentity, Consciousness and Value.Peter Unger - 1992 - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 52 (1):159.
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    The Cone Model of Knowledge.Peter Unger - 1986 - Philosophical Topics 14 (1):125-178.
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  19. (1 other version)The Mental Problems of the Many.Peter Unger - 2004 - In Dean W. Zimmerman (ed.), Oxford Studies in Metaphysics Volume 1. Oxford University Press. pp. 195-222.
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    Propositional Verbs and Knowledge.Peter Unger - 1972 - Journal of Philosophy 69 (11):301-312.
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  21. The causal theory of reference.Peter Unger - 1983 - Philosophical Studies 43 (1):1 - 45.
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    (1 other version)The Survival of the Sentient.Peter Unger - 2000 - Noûs 34 (s14):325-348.
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    Contextual analysis in ethics.Peter Unger - 1995 - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 55 (1):1-26.
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    The Uniqueness in Causation.Peter Unger - 1977 - American Philosophical Quarterly 14 (3):177 - 188.
  25. Free will and scientifiphicalism.Peter Unger - 2002 - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 65 (1):1-25.
    It’s been agreed for decades that not only does Determinism pose a big problem for our choosing from available alternatives, but its denial seems to pose a bit of a problem, too. It’s argued here that only Determinism, and not its denial, means no real choice for us.But, what explains the appeal of the thought that, where things aren’t fully determined, to that extent they’re just a matter of chance? It's the dominance of metaphysical suppositions that, together, comprise Scientiphicalism: Wholly (...)
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    Minimizing Arbitrariness: Toward a Metaphysics of Infinitely Many Isolated Concrete Worlds.Peter Unger - 1984 - Midwest Studies in Philosophy 9 (1):29-51.
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  27. Skepticism and nihilism.Peter Unger - 1980 - Noûs 14 (4):517-545.
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    Conscious beings in a gradual world.Peter Unger - 1988 - Midwest Studies in Philosophy 12 (1):287-333.
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    On experience and the development of the understanding.Peter K. Unger - 1966 - American Philosophical Quarterly 3 (1):48-56.
  30. The mystery of the physical and the matter of qualities.Peter K. Unger - 1998 - Midwest Studies in Philosophy 22 (1):75–99.
    For some fifty years now, nearly all work in mainstream analytic philosophy has made no serious attempt to understand the _nature of_ _physical reality,_ even though most analytic philosophers take this to be all of reality, or nearly all. While we've worried much about the nature of our own experiences and thoughts and languages, we've worried little about the nature of the vast physical world that, as we ourselves believe, has them all as only a small part.
     
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  31. The Mystery of the Physical and the Matter of Qualities: A Paper for Professor Shaffer.Peter Unger - 1999 - Midwest Studies in Philosophy 23 (1):75-99.
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    (1 other version)Semantics and philosophy: [essays].Milton Karl Munitz & Peter K. Unger (eds.) - 1974 - New York: New York University Press.
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    Empty ideas.Peter Unger - 2012 - The Philosophers' Magazine 57 (57):31-41.
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    Toward a Psychology of Common Sense.Peter Unger - 1982 - American Philosophical Quarterly 19 (2):117 - 129.
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    Two types of scepticism.Peter Unger - 1974 - Philosophical Studies 25 (2):77 - 96.
  36. Experience and factual knowledge.Peter Unger - 1967 - Journal of Philosophy 64 (5):152-173.
  37. An Argument for Skepticism.Peter Unger - 1974 - Philosophic Exchange 5 (1):131-155.
     
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  38. Philosophical Papers: Volume 2.Peter Unger - 2006 - Oxford Up.
    While well-known for his longer book-length work, philosopher Peter Unger's shorter articles have, until now, been less accessible. Collected in two volumes, Philosophical Papers includes articles spanning over 40 years of Unger's long and fruitful career. Volume two focuses on Unger's important work in metaphysics.
     
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    Philosophical papers.Peter K. Unger - 2006 - New York: Oxford University Press.
    While well-known for his book-length work, philosopher Peter Unger's articles have been less widely accessible. These two volumes of Unger's Philosophical Papers include articles spanning more than 35 years of Unger's long and fruitful career. Dividing the articles thematically, this first volume collects work in epistemology and ethics, among other topics, while the second volume focuses on metaphysics. Unger's work has advanced the full spectrum of topics at the heart of philosophy, including epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of language and philosophy of (...)
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    A Cornucopia of Quality.Peter Unger - 2006 - In Peter K. Unger (ed.), All the power in the world. New York: Oxford University Press.
    The idea of physical things as extensible qualified is so aptly related to our power to think experientially that it may serve us humans fairly well when it comes to our clearly conceiving physical individuals. Accordingly, the physical need not be so opaque to us as it sometimes seemed to many philosophers. When we speak of a certain quality exemplified in an individual, the matter is related more perspicuously by saying that the particular is qualified in a certain way. Whatever (...)
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    A Humanly Realistic Philosophy.Peter Unger - 2006 - In Peter K. Unger (ed.), All the power in the world. New York: Oxford University Press.
    We human beings are quite limited, it is painfully plain, in our experiencing, our thinking, and our understanding. Yet, even when mindful of our human limitations, we may perhaps aspire to a humanly intelligible philosophy of the world that is, nonetheless, a fairly substantial philosophy. This chapter provides some quite simple and obvious observations and then attempts to articulate some instructive implications of those observations. The implications may also be features of a humanly realistic philosophy. Each of us has a (...)
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    Aspects of Semantic Relativity.Peter Unger - 1984 - In Peter K. Unger (ed.), Philosophical relativity. New York: Oxford University Press.
    Examines the common sense attractiveness of contextualism over invariantism, and ultimately takes such a common sense attractiveness to be a function of our intellectual habits as opposed to a reflection of objective fact. The claim that there do not exist semantic approaches that are more favorable than either contextualism or invariantism is made and argued for via an appeal to sortalism, superinvariantism, and supercontextualism, which are also rejected as brutally implausible. The possibility that any of these three semantic approaches might (...)
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    A Plenitude of Power.Peter Unger - 2006 - In Peter K. Unger (ed.), All the power in the world. New York: Oxford University Press.
    This chapter explores how it may be that substantial individuals are powered, or propensities. It discusses the propensity of basic physical entities and the propensity of other possible concrete, including immaterial minds. The chapter then articulates an idea of individualistically directed propensities or, for short, individualistic powers. There will be some worlds in which each of the its physical objects has propensities with respect to the sizes of other physical things, with which it is thus set to interact. The chapter (...)
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    A Relativistic Approach to Some Philosophical Problems.Peter Unger - 1984 - In Peter K. Unger (ed.), Philosophical relativity. New York: Oxford University Press.
    Applies the semantic relativism developed in the previous chapters to key terms in several philosophical debates in order to establish philosophical relativity. In all of these cases, invariantism forces the skeptical position whilst contextualism resonates with our common sense views. These philosophical debates and their relevant terms are the problem of epistemic skepticism via “know,” the problem of freewill and determinism as instanced by compatibilism and incompatibilism via “can” and “freewill,” the problem of specifying causal conditions via “cause,” and the (...)
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  45. Causing and preventing serious harm.Peter Unger - 1992 - Philosophical Studies 65 (3):227 - 255.
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    Consciousness and Self-Identity.Peter Unger - 1986 - Midwest Studies in Philosophy 10 (1):63-100.
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    Demystifying the Physical.Peter Unger - 2006 - In Peter K. Unger (ed.), All the power in the world. New York: Oxford University Press.
    When we communicate with each other, we interact with an external reality, quite distinct from each other. Nowadays, we take it that this possibly mysterious external reality, through which we communicate, is physical reality. But, what can any of this really amount to? In presenting the Mystery of the Physical, this book presented, in two Formulations, a doctrine concerning the denial of quality. According to the denial of qualities, all the world's matter lacks qualities, even as a lot lacks anything (...)
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    Experience, Scepticism, and Knowledge.Peter K. Unger - 1966
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    How Rich is Concrete Reality?Peter Unger - 2006 - In Peter K. Unger (ed.), All the power in the world. New York: Oxford University Press.
    This chapter considers some clearly distinct basic bodies, as with some spatially separate spherical red particles. It suggests that it is in conceiving such clearly spatial bodies as are so spatially separate that we humans may have our clearest conception as to how it is that, all at the very same time, there may be several distinct concrete individuals and not, say, just a single concretism multiply conceived. The chapter explores concrete reality and substantial dualism, sameness and difference of concrete (...)
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    Impotence and causal determinism.Peter Unger - 1977 - Philosophical Studies 31 (May):289-305.
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